Dante’s Peak (Geological Perspective) The movie is set in the town of Dante’s Peak in the Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest. Dante’s Peak is an all-too-rare opportunity for you to enjoy a good adventure/"natural catastrophe" movie. USA Dante’s Peak is of course, not a real Cascade volcano. When volcanoes in the Cascade Ranges erupt they frequently do so explosively and produce pyroclastic materials, ashes and mud or debris flows. …showed first 75 words of 395 total…

…showed last 75 words of 395 total…these days to draw a crowd. There are very acidic lakes around volcanoes and yes, you would not want to swim in them...and yes, metal parts can corrode in acid lakes; a thin metal cable might dissolve on a movie timescale. The acids may be sulfuric and hydrochloric acid, plus others, and the acidity can be quite high, hundreds to thousands of times as acidic as lemon juice or vinegar, or EVEN Coca Cola!